Animals
Like Animals, it puts a political figure’s public ambitions under pressure from a crisis rooted in private choices; Animals narrows the clock to a family’s ransom scramble, while Digger scales the fallout to a global disaster.
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Digger
The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's savior before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything.
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What it’s about — and how it feels
Digger turns a global disaster into a frantic character study of power and self-preservation. As the world buckles under a crisis he helped unleash, its most powerful man races to cast himself as humanity’s savior—a collision of public spectacle, personal denial and mounting catastrophe, shaped by Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s comedy-drama approach.
Power curdling into self-preservationDisaster as political theaterFrantic, darkly comic crisisA would-be savior under pressure
Where it stands
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Details
- Directed by
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu
- Runtime
- 2h 9m
- Starring
- Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman
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Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Both use comedy and drama to watch a self-image come apart: Crazy, Stupid, Love. tracks Cal’s upheaval through divorce and dating, while Digger ties its protagonist’s frantic reinvention to a catastrophe he set in motion.
The Conjuring
Both bring a family-facing crisis into a heightened, threatening atmosphere, but The Conjuring grounds its terror in a farmhouse haunting, while Digger frames disaster through a powerful man’s bid to control the story.